No class name was ever given to this freighter design. This ship and the NCC-G1465 ships are the only canon starships to have a further letter prefix, after the "-", before the number, in their registry.

Although the ship was manned by Starfleet officers, this vessel was consistently referred to as the "SS" Huron, rather than the "USS" Huron. Despite this, the hull clearly reads "USS Huron".